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Today is
Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2013. There are 336 days left in the year.

Highlights in history

• On
Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88.

• In
1843, the 25th U.S. president, William McKinley (above), was born in Niles,
Ohio.

• In
1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem
The Raven was first published in the
New York Evening Mirror.

• In
1861, Kansas became the 34th state in the Union.

• In
1919, ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched
Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.

• In
1936, the first inductees into baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe
Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

• In
1958, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (above) were married in Las
Vegas.

• In
1963, the first charter members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were named in
Canton (they were enshrined when the Hall opened in September 1963).

• In
1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping
to the White House, after the establishment of diplomatic relations.

•
Ten years ago: The Congressional Budget Office predicted the federal deficit for
fiscal 2003 would soar to $199 billion even without President George W. Bush’s new tax-cut plan or
a war against Iraq.

•
Five years ago: Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S. Truman, died
in Chicago at age 83.

•
One year ago: Eleven people were killed when smoke and fog caused a series of
fiery crashes on I-75 in Florida.

Thought for Today

“And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written
of me on my stone: ‘I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.’ ” — Robert Frost (1874-1963)